Posted on 08/01/2007 12:43:07 PM PDT by blam
UK women 'least likely to care what men think'
By Lesley Thomas
Last Updated: 9:27am BST 01/08/2007
Russian women are more worried about a man's seal of approval
Frank Sinatra advised in the song Wives and Lovers: "Don't send him off, with your hair still in curlers. You may not see him again."
However, it seems that British women couldn't care less after a survey showed they are the least likely to put effort into their appearance for the sake of men.
They have the lowest levels of concern in the world for what husbands, boyfriends and other male observers might think, with only 51 per cent caring whether men liked their appearance, the study said.
Japanese women were second bottom with 53 per cent followed by Americans at 56 per cent.
Indian, Spanish and Korean women were far more worried about having a man's seal of approval, but it was Russia which topped the poll of 10,000 women, with 77 per cent saying that they cared what their men thought.
Janet Saunders, of Clinique, the cosmetics company which commissioned the study, said: "British women like to feel confident and beautiful for their own pleasure and take pride in their outward appearance." Susan Quilliam, a relationship psychologist said: "It's a delicate balance. It's a positive thing in an equal relationship to reference the other person's tastes and preferences sometimes."
The survey also showed, that Britons are among the keenest on cosmetic surgery. Thirty five per cent of British women said they have gone, or are willing to go, under the knife for beauty.
Only Korean women were more likely to consider surgical enhancement, while just three per cent of Indian women condone it.
The survey also asked which of the 12 countries polled had the most beautiful women. Although most found their country's own women the best looking, Britons rated Italian and Indian women more beautiful than themselves.
He didn't get away with it.
It's sort of an entitlement mentality--they expect that the View is going to get their poor propellers turning, and are very hostile when the view doesn't do the job.
We were kind of imposed on him, in my thirties when my Mother remarried after my fathers death 15 years earlier.
The La Donna myth doesn't exist in Swamp Yankee land, but I remember hours doing Resistance calculations on a project he was involved in at ECA.
WW2 28th Division Vet, Infantry, Electrical Engineer, Friend and Mentor, I love the Man.
“Ask him how classy he thinks those four hour erection commercials are?”
Bingo!
Here is the link about the lady who sued an ex-husband, whom she divorced 30 years earlier and hadn't seen since... and won! Only in the UK could this happen. She was cheating on him 30 years ago and got a nice settlement out of him then.
She continued to throw her life and finances into the toilet while sleeping her way around the world, and when the funs stops, sues the poor bloke for more cash and wins!
Think twice before you sign a marriage contract boys!
You can have 'em. You have a crane to hoist them over the threshold?
I remember reading that story. It was highly disturbing with regards to the implications for the men.
Is this person deemed to be a "lady" because of the little bumps up there towards the shoulders?
Looks to me like a total jerk, getting ready for a trip to North Dakota on his Harley, with lots of gold nuggets in the little pouch. LOL
There seems to be some misguided notion that obese people exist only in America, and that notion is wrong. Besides, I’d rather have a woman with some meat on her bones, especially in exchange for not having my legs rubbed raw by some elitist, Socialist, foul-breathed Eurotrash’s pale legs in my bed...
Pizza.
(Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
; < )
Do these conservative gentlemen think that American conservative women don't vote, and that it's not possible for them to be alienated?
Um...he is a control freak? After what has happenned to him, I can’t blame him for wanting a litte more secruity than his previously relationships.
Doh! Busted. I retract my apology for the double post.
“How about daily commercials talking about jock itch in detail? Yum!”
Hey, that’s capitalism for ya. As long as the FCC hasn’t deemed it inappropriate, they can market it.
I don’t have a TV, do you happen to know a cure for jock itch? Is there one?
There is a group if men who can objectively compare dating western and non-western women - western men who moved abroad; and these men walk the walk, not talk the talk so-to-speak. Basically there is no such thing as a western man dating a western woman in Brazil or in Russia. The reason for that is very simple - western men in these countries have an easy option of dating countless local women who are much better than western women in every aspect that matters to a man. So dating a western woman in Brazil would be like eating garbage when good food is easily available.
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